Expert reviews and ratings

Now with a hexa-core CPU. Despite using the most current components, the former top-gaming brand Alienware has had more and more difficulties standing up against the competitors. Find out in our review why this effort is not quite sufficient anymore for...

However, whether you should look at buying one right now might be another question entirely.Yes, if you're after the absolute best and most-beastly gaming laptop out there, it's truly difficult to look past the Aorus X9. It's the only gaming laptop that...

The Alienware 17 R5 is a great laptop that has been built exceptionally well and looks right its game. Powered by the i9 processor, 32GB RAM, and the GTX 1080, it is a beast as well. However, the laptop is solely for gamers, who also, could get better...

The Alienware 17 R5 gaming laptop delivers serious power in a big, but nicely built, package. The model we reviewed is expensive, but the configuration choices offer well-priced options for different...

If you're looking at a gaming laptop in the $3,000 price range, you can't do much better than the Alienware 17 R5 in terms of raw performance — so you should definitely buy it. But if you're looking to save a little, or pick up a laptop that's a bit...

The Alienware 17 R5 lived up to our expectations. Performance-wise you can't get much better. Maybe the AMD Ryzen 7 2700 can beat the Core i9-8950HK in some benchmarks but real-world performance shouldn't be any different. And as far as GPU performance...

The old Alienware 17 kicked ass. The new Alienware 17 R5 blows us away.The $3,810 version we tested pumps out more performance than we've ever seen in a gaming laptop with all-mobile parts. It offers over 55 percent more multi-thread performance than...